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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The overcrowded schools-Chantilly, Centreville and Westfield--are nowhere near Herndon or Langley so this discussion makes no sense. They need to find a site to build a highschool in the Centreville/Chantilly area.[/quote]

Westfield is not currently overcrowded.  It has a design capacity of over 2800 students and currently has slightly over 2600 students.  It could be overcrowded in the future, if all the housing under consideration near the new Silver Line stations is built.

Centreville and Chantilly are overcrowded now.  Centreville's overcrowding could be alleviated when the school is renovated.

At present, there's no real plan to address overcrowding at Chantilly other the possibility of a new high school somewhere in western Fairfax.  FCPS has not yet decided where that school will be built, or acquired a large enough site yet.

They cannot just snap their fingers and make a site materialize closer to Chantilly or Centreville. For a number of years, FCPS suggested the likely site of a new high school would be near Hutchison ES in Herndon.  If that happens, to provide meaningful relief to Chantilly (or to Centreville, if it still overcrowded, or to Westfield, if it was overcrowded at the time), there would be significant boundary changes in western Fairfax, some of which would involve Herndon HS (and, in turn, likely free up space there to take students from western Great Falls who live much closer to Herndon than to Langley).

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Leaving Langley under enrolled.

Anyway until they break ground on the thing no one knows.

And considering that they have a shrinking population in the younger grades, by the time they could procure, plan, and finish construction on a new high school it might not be needed.[/quote]

Not necessarily.  It depends on what happens in other parts of the county as well.  Not every area is as frozen in time as the Langley district. [/quote]

I am talking about the entire county you dimwit. Some of us watch the CIP work sessions instead of spending time worrying about whether parents in other pyramids think we’re good enough to be on the same PTA.[/quote]

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